Material Science Engineer

PRUTHUL DESAI

Permanent Resident (Authorized to work in US)

Email: ax47tn@r.postjobfree.com

Phone: 510-***-****

PROFILE

• Worked as Technology Development Engineer in coating industry having background of Material Science and Engineering with experience in Quality Control.

• Accomplished promising result of Diamond like Carbon (DLC) coatings for starting joint venture projects with major automobile industry.

• Documentation and reports completed in timely and efficient manner for ease of customer as well as for internal records using Microsoft Office.

• Successfully designed and commissioned Magnetron Sputtering and Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) system during Masters Degree for Material Science Department.

AREA OF EXPERTISE

• Diamond-like Carbon (DLC) Coating

• Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD)

• Sputtering/Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD)

• Process Optimization

• Surface Preparation

• Project Management

• Design of Experiment (DOE)

• Production Technology

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sub-One Technology, Inc. Pleasanton, CA (Sep’08-Feb’11)

Technology Development Engineer

• Developed new processes and optimized conditions for DLC deposition using CVD Technology on internal and external surface of automobile and oil industry parts.

• Analyzed data and developed an improvised DLC coating to reduce friction, abrasion, wear rate and corrosion resistance with high growth rate.

• Modeled and redesigned fixtures with hands on experience on Lathe and CNC machines that resulted in 15% reduction in overall costing of the coating.

• Essential member of engineering team in planning and commissioning of pilot production plant for coating OGTC long pipelines in Texas.

University of Texas at Arlington (Aug’06- Aug’08)

Research Assistant

• Research topic: “Synthesis and Tribological Properties of DLC film by Radio Frequency Plasma Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (RF-PACVD): Effect of Processing Parameters”.

• Hands on experience of characterization equipments like Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Profilometer and Tribometer.

• Synthesis of self-assembled monolayer of Carbon Nanotube and Carbon Nanosphere on Silicon wafer.

Steelco Gujarat Ltd. India (June’05-Jan’06)

Quality Engineer

• Responsible for monitoring quality for daily production of cold rolled steel as per ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 norms.

• Established rework station to reduce in process reject and excess material handling which also increased the daily throughput by 20%.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• Master of Science in Material Science and Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX. (Spring’09 GPA 3.76/4.0)

• Bachelor of Engineering in Metallurgical Engineering, M.S. University, Baroda, India. (May’05)

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